Category: International

Islamabad – 8 October 2024 (ABID CHAUDHRY) : A week-long photography exhibition, titled ‘Once there was, and once there wasn’t – Styrian Tales from the Silk Road,’ centered on the fairy tales of Silk Road countries, was officially opened on Monday at the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA). The event was inaugurated by Austrian Charge d’Affaires Hannes Machor, along with Austrian curator and artist Dr. Maryam Mohammadi, and Director General of PNCA Muhammad Ayoub Jamali. The exhibition features works of the Austrian curator, artist and photographer Maryam Mohammadi…

Indian police have charged a man for the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor which sparked wide-scale protests throughout the country. The discovery of the doctor’s bloodied body at a government hospital in the eastern city of Kolkata on August 9 sparked nationwide anger at the chronic issue of violence against women. The suspect, named Sanjoy Roy, arrested the day after the murder and held in custody since, was formally charged on Monday with a confidential document of evidence submitted to the court. “Sanjoy Roy has been charged with…

KATHMANDU: Nepal has shut schools for three days after landslides and floods triggered by two days of heavy rain across the Himalayan nation killed 170 people, officials said on Sunday. The floods brought traffic and normal activity to a standstill in the Kathmandu valley, where 37 deaths were recorded in a region home to four million people and the capital. Authorities said students and their parents faced difficulties as university and school buildings damaged by the rains needed repair. “We have urged the concerned authorities to close schools in the…

Renowned global leaders on late Saturday expressed their deepest condolences and condemned the assassination of Hezbollah’s longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah by the Israeli forces. Israel’s foes vowed revenge after Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah announced its leader Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli air strike on a suburb of Beirut. Several world powers also warned of the killing’s potential repercussions, as the spectre of all-out war looms over the Middle East.  Iran First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref warned Israel that Nasrallah’s death would “bring about their destruction”, Iran’s ISNA news…

YANGON: The death toll from the flooding in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi has doubled in Myanmar to reach 226, confirmed the state media. The state TV on Monday revealed that 77 people were still missing following the storm which caused flooding that destroyed rice paddies and other crops spread across 640,000 acres. Typhoon Yagi hit northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar more than a week ago with powerful winds and an enormous amount of rain, triggering floods and landslides that have killed more than 500 people, according to official figures.…

TUANGOO, MYANMAR: Myanmar’s junta chief made a rare request Saturday for foreign aid to cope with deadly floods that have displaced hundreds of thousands of people who have already endured three years of war. Floods and landslides have killed almost 300 people in Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand in the wake of Typhoon Yagi, which dumped a colossal deluge of rain when it hit the region last weekend. In Myanmar, more than 235,000 people have been forced from their homes by floods, the junta said Friday, piling further misery on…

Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump said during his televised debate with Kamala Harris on Tuesday that his Democratic rival had no economic plans of her own, and had copied President Joe Biden’s policies. “She doesn’t have a plan. She copied Biden’s plan, and it’s like four sentences… four sentences that are just, ‘Oh, we’ll try and lower taxes.’ She doesn’t have a plan,” he said during the prime-time showdown on ABC. Here are takeaways from the debate: Handshake Heading into the debate, there was a question as to how Harris…